英和和英

語源

sub- +‎ specialize

動詞

subspecialize (三人称単数 現在形 subspecializes, 現在分詞 subspecializing, 過去形および過去分詞形 subspecialized)

1. To specialize within a particular area of a specialty.
   • 2009 July 12, Amanda Petrusich, “They’ve Got Those Old, Hard-to-Find Blues”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Although most collectors subspecialize by genre, whether jazz or classical or country, it’s early American rural blues — loose acoustic laments, recorded before 1935 and performed by artists who were born in or near the Mississippi Delta — that inspires the highest prices and the most fevered pursuits.

派生語

• subspecialty, subspeciality
• subspecialist